Ethnic cleansing apologist

AFTER a long spell of backbench obscurity, Mark Field has been promoted to Foreign Office minister. I fear, though, that the former City solicitor is out of his depth. Last week, he delivered a pathetic speech during the emergency Commons debate over the hideous ethnic cleansing of minority Muslims in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Mr Field gave the impression that the victims were to blame for the violence. Above all, he failed to condemn Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s government. It was a spineless performance which gave no sense that our government is awake to the horror or the gravity of the tragedy.